That's how I right all of my swing apps - I size EVERYTHING by reference
to the current system font size.

But if you say that Pivot can scale the entire device host that would be
a pretty cool approach :-)

Todd Volkert wrote:
>> Pixels are considered a device-independent unit of measure in Pivot. The 
>> idea is that super-high resolution monitors would increase the scale factor 
>> of the display host to compensate. Microsoft's WPF takes a similar approach. 
>> I'm not sure exactly how Vista handles it, but I'm guessing that it allows 
>> you to scale the entire UI rather than simply increasing the font size. 
>> Apple has also been moving towards a fully-scalable UI - maybe we'll see it 
>> in 10.6.
>>     
>
> But what if for accessibility's sake, the user has jacked up their
> system font to 200%, then they run a Pivot app, and everything's too
> small?  It'd be nice if we could detect that condition and auto-scale
> the display host such that they could see the app :)
>   

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